[GRLUG] Storage Request

[Steve Romanow]

A couple of questions I have:

Is this lan only access or a wan involved?

Is the slow performance a single user on an unencumbered connection, or 
are they having trouble with multiple users simultaneously accessing files.

I would be interested to see if the same file transfer using a different 
protocol but same hardware and file selection would get different 
results.  For example, have the win user use winscp or another ftp 
client to pull the same files without using Windows Explorer.

I have found wan file share browsing remote smb shares to be much 
snappier in win7 that I ever did with winxp.  I think win7 is doing some 
caching or prefetching dir list info in the background.  The transfer is 
the same speed, but I dont wait as long for very full directories to 
appear and be usable in Win Explorer.

On 2/25/2011 10:58 AM, Casey DuBois wrote:
> Hello GRLUGGERS,
>
> I got the following Storage Request from a customer but need some
> Linux help from the group.
>
> Here's what he's asking for:
>
> Looking for NAS Storage System, What I’m really looking for a system
> which will provide storage accessible by both Linux and Windows
> systems with decent performance.  We’re currently connected via CIFS
> from Windows to Linux with slow performance.  I believe I’ve seen NAS
> systems can bridge between these two system type.  Things in
> particular I’m looking for are probably SAS drives and 10Gbit
> connectivity.  Probably somewhere between 4 to 10TB storage space
> would be good.
>
>
>
> I was hoping that some in the group have had experience with making
> storage accessible by Linux and Windows systems without the
> performance issues he is currently seeing.
>
> Suggestions?
> Questions?
> Comments?
>
> Casey DuBois
> 616-808-6942
> casey at grlug.org
>


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